Brooklyn Newsstand Program Makes Digital Newspaper Archive Available to Public The Brooklyn Public Library system announced recently a new initiative to digitize… Mercy Pilkington12 April 2014One comment2 minute read
Cleis Press, Penthouse Collaborate on New Line of Erotica eBooks It took them long enough, but some of the biggest names in… Mercy Pilkington11 April 2014One comment1 minute read
Hugh Howey Explains the Need for Authors to Give Away Their Books On last week’s IndieChat event, hosted every Tuesday night on Twitter by… Mercy Pilkington11 April 2014One comment2 minute read
Smashwords Reveals Number of Bestselling Authors Overwhelmingly Female Over on the Smashwords blog, CEO and founder Mark Coker posted some… Mercy Pilkington11 April 2014One comment2 minute read
Booktrack Aids eBook Comprehension, Looks to Educational Application Not long after digital publishing improved the reading experience with portability, the… Mercy Pilkington10 April 20142 comments2 minute read
New SelfPub Writing Award Backed By The Guardian With indie authors often barred from prestigious writing and book awards, smaller… Mercy Pilkington9 April 2014One comment1 minute read
OverDrive eReading Rooms Engage Libraries’ Youngest Patrons As libraries look for news ways to stay relevant and meet their… Mercy Pilkington8 April 2014One comment2 minute read
E-reading Leading to Alarming “Digital Brain” Phenomenon For better or for worse, digital reading is here and it’s everywhere.… Mercy Pilkington8 April 20144 comments2 minute read
Apple Requests Stay in Proceedings After a lengthy court battle over ebook price fixing and collusion with… Mercy Pilkington8 April 2014One comment2 minute read
The Bullies Win: Authors Abandoning Publishing Over Online Behaviors Good e-Reader has given extensive coverage to a situation plaguing the publishing… Mercy Pilkington7 April 201428 comments3 minute read
London Book Fair’s Digital Minds Conference Kicks Off with a Stab at Amazon The broken record of the publishing industry is playing the same old… Mercy Pilkington7 April 2014One comment2 minute read
Book Promo Tours Help Authors Stay Relevant in the Digital Era Publishers, agents, and publicists are taking a cue from the film and… Mercy Pilkington6 April 20143 comments2 minute read
Screwpulp’s Launch May Be the Salvation of Book Reviews Readers and authors alike have been crying foul over book reviews from… Mercy Pilkington4 April 20142 comments2 minute read
Ingram Partnership Streamlines Pubishing Tools One of the country’s largest sources for printing books has teamed up… Mercy Pilkington4 April 2014No comments1 minute read
Author’s Guild Elects SelfPublished Author CJ Lyons to Executive Council In the ongoing world of us-against-them where traditional and self-publishing are concerned,… Mercy Pilkington3 April 2014No comments2 minute read
AAP Says eBook Sales Increased by 3.8%, But Indies Ignored The Association of American Publishers has released the results of a survey… Mercy Pilkington2 April 20142 comments1 minute read
McGraw-Hill Education Opens Create Platform for K12 Teachers Digital textbooks continue to be one of the key frustrations in the… Mercy Pilkington1 April 2014No comments2 minute read
Camp NaNoWriMo Kicks Off Today Most authors and even a good number of readers have at least… Mercy Pilkington1 April 2014One comment2 minute read
JK Rowling to Write New Harry Potter Screenplays If anyone in the publishing industry has everything under control, it’s JK… Mercy Pilkington31 March 2014One comment2 minute read
IPR License Launches Trade Rights to Foster International Rights Sales One of the world’s well-known sources for global books rights is the… Mercy Pilkington31 March 2014One comment2 minute read
Verso Reintroduces eBook and Print Bundling As early as 2010, publishers experimented with offering readers an added value… Mercy Pilkington31 March 2014No comments2 minute read